Please do not forget that this Wednesday 12th March is a staff inset day which means that the school is closed for all pupils. 

This week we are reading the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk' We have the characters from the story in our small world, so the children can retell the story and make a castle out of bricks and shaving foam. We will be planting broad beans and we discussing what they need to grow. 

In drawing club, we will be introducing new vocabulary, our "Get up, Stand up words". These are clambering, booming, descending and glittering. We will be drawing the giant and Jack. We will be imagining that the giant has called the police and deciding how the police could catch Jack! We will also be deciding what Jack will buy with all his giant treasure? We will use code words and sentences to make funny things happen.

In phonics, this week we will be recapping the phase 3 sounds  /ch/ /sh/ /th/ and /ng/  . We are also focusing on all the tricky words we have learnt so far. 

In maths, we will be finding 9 and 10 around the classroom and in books, we will be comparing numbers to 10 using dominoes and we will be making 10 using items from around our classroom.

We will also begin planting our own runner beans and over the next few weeks we will be watching them grow. We will tell you as soon as we start to see their shoots.